Flan de Vainilla (Vanilla Flan)

• servings: 6 servings
• active time: 15 minutes
• total time: 1 hour

Ingredients

4 Whole Eggs

1 ½ cups Evaporated Milk (1 can)

12 oz Sweet Condensed Milk (1 can)

1 tbsp Vanilla Extract

¼ tsp Salt

1 cup Sugar

3 tbsp water

Directions

Set Oven to 325 degrees F

Add baking tray with water and let it warm up

Add sugar to a saucepan along with 3 tbsp of water and begin caramelizing sugar over medium heat. Do not mix or stir until sugar has melted to prevent sugar from crystallizing

In a room temperature cake pan, add caramel and be sure to coat the sides of the pan. Set aside and let caramel harden to a candy. Be careful not to burn yourself with the caramel since it is SUPER HOT

In a mixing bowl, add 4 eggs and gently whisk together. Then add sweet condensed milk & salt and continue to whisk gently until well combined. Now add evaporated milk and vanilla extract. Just like before, whisk gently until well combined

Once the flan custard mixture has been mixed, pass through a sieve into a large measuring cup. This will insure that your flan is super silky in texture and bakes perfectly

Afterwards, transfer the flan mixture into a candied cake pan. Then carefully place the cake pan into a baking tray with water-- a bain-marie. By now, the oven should have come up to temperature and the water should have warmed up.

Bake flan for 40-50 mins but do not exceed an hour. The longer you bake the flan, the firmer your flan will be. When taking your flan out of the oven, it should jiggle just a bit. No worries, your flan will continue to set as it cools.

Once your flan has finished baking, Set flan onto a cooling rack and let it cool and set for at least 2 hours or until the flan has reached room temperature

Now that the flan has reached room temperature, wiggle the cake pan and watch as the flan releases itself from the sides. If the flan is still stuck, feel free to take a sharp knife and gently scrape the sides of the pan to release the flan. Once the sides are released, carefully flip flan over into a deep dish so that it catches all of the caramel

Chill flan for at least 4 hours before serving. The flavors will continue to set along with the custard

Nutrition

• Calories: 200
• Total Fat: 20 g